MICHAEL PRIOR Shadows Under the Trees
from the award-winning author of Burning Province
Night falls, and I open the album
I’ve chosen not to open until now.
MICHAEL PRIOR
Shadows Under the Trees
Poetry. Chapbook.
ISBN 978-1-989355-80-0
OUT SPRING 2026
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Cover: Kirby
Design/layout: R. Kolewe
MICHAEL PRIOR is a writer, teacher, and editor. His most recent book of poems, Burning Province (McClelland & Stewart/Penguin Random House, 2020), won the Canada-Japan Literary Award and the BC & Yukon Book Prizes' Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. He is also the author of Model Disciple (Véhicule Press, 2016), which was named one of the best books of the year by the CBC.
Michael is the recipient of fellowships from the Amy Clampitt Residency, the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center, the Jerome Foundation, and Hawthornden Literary Retreat. His poems have appeared in magazines and anthologies across North America and the UK, including Poetry, The Nation, The New Republic, Narrative Magazine, Sewanee Review, Kenyon Review, PN Review, Ambit, Poetry Daily, Global Poetry Anthology, and the Academy of American Poets' Poem-A-Day series.
Michael holds graduate degrees from Cornell University and the University of Toronto. He is an Associate Professor of English and ACM Mellon Faculty Fellow at Macalester College, and also edits the Véhicule Press poetry imprint, Signal Editions.